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Title
Exterior view of an old Indian School at Fort Independence, ca.1900
Creator
Pierce, C.C. (Charles C.), 1861-1946
Date Created and/or Issued
circa 1900
Publication Information
University of Southern California. Libraries
Contributing Institution
California Historical Society
University of Southern California Digital Library
Collection
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Rights Information
Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189
Public Domain. Release under the CC BY Attribution license--http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/--Credit both “University of Southern California. Libraries” and “California Historical Society” as the source. Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library; From the California Historical Society Collection at the University of Southern California
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Description
Photograph of an exterior view of an old Indian School at Fort Independence, ca.1900. A cement staircase on the right leads from the trees to the entrance of the raised wooden building. The door and windows have a lightly-colored trims and the shingled roof has two chimneys on the left as well as two small, covered protrusions in the center and on the right. Tall weeds cover the foreground.
Picture file card reads "This was one of the buildings of Fort Independence barracks for United States soldiers from 1865-1877. This building was later remodeled into a school. Part of the soldiers parade ground, now covered with weeds is seen in the foreground".
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : photoprint, b&w
21 x 26 cm.
photographic prints
photographs
Identifier
chs-m20082
USC-1-1-1-14145 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-20329
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m20082
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-20329.jpg
Subject
Mines and mineral resources
Mining--Inyo County
Educational facilities
Time Period
circa 1900
Place
California
Inyo
USA
Source
1-112-126 [Microfiche number]
20329 [Accession number]
CHS-20329 [Call number]
California Historical Society [Contributing entity]
Relation
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Title Insurance and Trust, and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection, 1860-1960
USC
chs-m265

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